The first stage version of The Wizard of Oz was presented on
21 January, 1903 at the Majestic Theatre Broadway where it ran for some
293 performances. The Music at that time was composed by A Baldwin Sloane
& Paul Tietjens with lyrics and Book by L. Frank Baum

STORY

Little Dorothy Gale of Kansas, like so many girls her age, often dreams
of what may lie over the rainbow. One day a tornado hits her home town
and carries her away to Munchkinland - at the end of the rainbow.

The Munchkins fete Dorothy as a heroine. Dorothy wants to go home to
Kansas and seeks the help of the kind Sorceress of the North. Only the
great Wizard of Oz, says the Sorceress, can help Dorothy get back to Kansas.

Dorothy persuades three friends to accompany her on the trip to the Emerald
City to see the Wizard. They are Scarecrow, who lacks a brain, he thinks;
the Tin Woodman, who has no heart, and the Cowardly Lion, who would like
to have some courage.

The Wicked Witch of the West vows vengeance on Dorothy and does all she
can to stop the friends getting to the Emerald City. But they do reach
it, and manage to see the Wizard. He will only help them, he says, if
they kill the Wicked Witch of the West, an apparently impossible task.
They do succeed, they get all their wishes and the Wizard accompanies
Dorothy to Kansas in a rocket ship.

The well-known score includes some of the best loved songs in the American
musical pantheon.